"Among American poets of religious belief at the present time, none is more skillful, authentic, or convincing than Scott Cairns." -- B. H. Fairchild, poet, National Book Critics Circle Award winner "With Dostoyevsky and the psalmists as his traveling companions, Cairns pursues his peregrinations through frustration and pleasure, desolation and eros, step by step realizing 'how / fraught, how laden the visible is.' -- Kimberly Johnson, poet, author of A Metaphorical God